A band of brazen thieves ripped off hundreds of New Yorkers by rigging ATMs to steal account and password information from bank customers.
They used the pilfered info to swipe half a million dollars from their victims' bank accounts - the latest twist in increasingly aggressive identity-theft scams, police said.
"This crew is sophisticated," said Deputy Inspector Gregory Antonsen, head of the NYPD's… Continue
Los Angeles (E! Online) – Forget da club. 50 Cent is in the clear.
Or is he?
The hip-hopster, whose real name is Curtis Jackson, has announced on his community blog, ThisIs50.com, that he is no longer a suspect in the 2008 blaze that gutted his New York mansion and nearly killed his former girlfriend and their then-10-year-old son.
"The police department and insurance investigators ruled that there is absolutely no… Continue
May 10, 2009. MediaTakeOut.com just heard some EXPLOSIVE news. According to one of our MOST RELIABLE insiders, there are more EXPLICIT PICS to be released.
According to MediaTakeOut.com's insider, pics allegedly showing Jennifer Lopez naked are set to hit the internet today or tomorrow. Apparently the same source which released the "Cassie" photos and the "Rihanna" photos also has some of "J Lo".
So much for doing it for the fans. Tickets for Beyonce's four night "intimate" appearance at the Wynn Hotel in Las Vegas are going fast -- but only to rich people. Fans have to buy their tickets along with a two night stay in the hotel -- packages range from $450 and $850 per person -- and that's just for starters.
If that's too rich for your blood and you want to skip the hotel, a limited number of tickets are selling for $250, $500, $750,… Continue
EARLIER THIS WEEK WE SAW PICS OF CASSIE SHOWING HER TITTIES AND SHE HAD THEM PIERCED.
NEW PIC SHOWS CASSIE SPREAD EAGLE & SHE HAS HER CLIT PIERCED TOO!
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Who is probably the only person in the world who can erase a smile off the always good-natured face of Nick Cannon? One guess. He's known as rap's Mr. No-Holds-Barred: Eminem.
Cannon has taken major offense to a leaked record from Em's Relapse, "Bagpipes From Baghdad," in which Em raps about taking Mariah Carey "back" from Nick Cannon. (Carey has denied Eminem's claims that they dated for six… Continue
In a scene echoing the horror movie Alien, Gavin staggered into his GP’s surgery bleeding from his belly button.
His stunned GP Dr Joe Santos said: “It was like something from Alien. I didn’t believe Gavin when he said something was coming out of his belly button until I saw him.”
Medics said the growth was a parasitic twin — Gavin’s identical brother who died in the womb early in their mum’s… Continue
An eager fan pants'd the rapper as he performed at a concert in San Diego yesterday, but still, you can't really blame her -- Flo Rida got the process going when he decided to sag his already baggy… Continue
Parents in some of the city's swankiest neighborhoods were in a panic Friday night after a "Manhattan Manny" who called himself an "amazing big brother figure" was charged with molesting four boys.
A prosecutor warned that Jonathan Then "had access to hundreds of other young boys" in recent years, both in New York City "and beyond."
Among other things, Then worked as a volunteer classroom aide with… Continue
The son of Run-DMC founding member Joseph Simmons got busted Friday night because he couldn't run fast enough from narcotics cops.
Jojo Simmons, 19, got caught buying marijuana from a street pusher on Wadsworth Ave. in Washington Heights and made things worse by getting rough with the officers, police said.
They said Jojo was behind the wheel of his BMW, which has "JoJo" embroidered on the head rests,… Continue
First Cassie and now Rihanna in the buff! Some nude photos have surfaced on the internet of Rihanna apparently taken by her with her camera phone. Do we think these are real or fake and if they are real (which I kinda feel like they are), don’t we think Chris Brown had to be related in someway to leak?…
Last month when Wendy claimed she had a sex tape featuring a hip hop artist wife and an unknown man, I seriously thought she was talking sideways for ratings. Back then, she claimed that she was selling it to the highest bidder but who extorts a celebrity sex tape on air? I mean serioulsy?? According to Taleata, the sex tape may actually exist and the unidentified man is an unknown rapper by the name of Infrared.
T.I. has banished Alfamega from the Grand Hustle Records family. Alfamega was scandalized earlier this week when the SmokingGun.com published a report and purported legal documents saying that Mega was an informant for the drug enforcement administration during a trial on a heroin trafficker.
The allegations obviously didn't sit well with T.I., who himself is going to jail because one of his bodyguards decided to… Continue
California emcee Jay Rock was recently exonerated as the lead suspect of a drive by shooting in his Watts neighborhood.
Jay Rock, real name Johnnie McKenzie, was arrested on Wednesday April 29 as the primary suspect in the shooting. Footage of the arrest was disseminated throughout the internet last week. In the 3 minute clip, an agitated Jay Rock is shown in custody on a curb outside his home, while friends shout epithets at the… Continue
WASHINGTON (AP) — Michael Jackson's publicist and general manager has filed a $44 million lawsuit against the pop star claiming he has not paid her for deals she's made.
Raymone Bain of Washington has been Jackson's spokeswoman for more than five years, speaking on his behalf in all sorts of matters including his child molestation trial. Three years ago, Jackson expanded her role by appointing her the head of the Michael Jackson Co.… Continue
Irv Gotti says he and Ashanti, the Princess of the Inc., will soon be parting company. He said they haven't been on speaking terms for some time, and the label head/ reality TV star says there's nothing he can do but end their musical and business affiliation.
The NYPD's stop-and-frisk pilot program is "garbage policy" that allows police to keep personal information of innocent people, a law enforcement group said Wednesday.
The group 100 Blacks in Law Enforcement Who Care said the NYPD collects personal data during stops and stores it in a database - even from pedestrians who are never arrested.
"This is Big Brother at its worst," said Marquez Claxton, co-founder of the… Continue
We've now obtained the discovery motions filed by Chris Brown's lawyer, Mark Geragos, asking for all written statements and reports from the LAPD regarding the photo of Rihanna posted on TMZ.
Geragos believes the photo was leaked by an LAPD officer -- He writes, "...this highly prejudicial photograph was sold by an LAPD officer to the entertainment website, Thirty Mile Zone (TMZ). The photograph was immediately viewed by hundreds of… Continue